On Jan 23, 2004, at 5:15 PM, Giles Lean wrote:

>
> Ty Sarna wrote:
>
>> Anyone object to:
>>
>> 1) adding uuidgen(2)/uuidgen(1) a'la FreeBSD
>
> [ As an aside, FreeBSD has uuid(3) in libc, and Linux has libuuid().
>   I just love *nix compatibility.  Bring back the Unix wars! :-(
> ]
>
> I'd like to see uuidgen(1): both FreeBSD and Linux have it.
> Unfortunately, they have different options.  The Linux manual
> page says that their implementation conforms to OSF DCE 1.1,
> but I don't know if they mean the command or just the output
> format.
>
> Linux:
>     uuidgen [ -r | -t ]
>
> where -r gives a 'random' UUID, -t gives a 'time-based' UUID, and
> the default depends on the presence or absence of a 'high-quality'
> random number generator.
>
> FreeBSD:
>     uuidgen [-1] [-n count] [-o filename]
>
> where -1 says to generate identifiers one at a time, -n says how
> many identifiers to create, and -o redirects output to a file.
>
> Were you planning to implement any of these options?  (I'm mostly just
> curious: in my own use, I've only ever run uuidgen(1) without
> options.)

When I ported it, I brought over the uuidgen as well.  It should be in=20=

the .gz file.

jf
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